[iva] Final CFP: LREC: Just Talking: Deadline extended to 26 February

Emer Gilmartin gilmare at tcd.ie
Sun Feb 14 14:00:45 CET 2016


******* Deadline Extended: 26 February *******

*Workshop: "Just talking – casual talk among humans and machines"*


*Venue: Grand Hotel Bernardin Conference Center, Portorož (Slovenia)*

*Saturday, 28 May 2016, morning session.*

Submissions: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2016/JustTalking/

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This workshop will focus on collection and analysis of resources, novel
research, and applications in both human-human and human-machine casual
interactionA major distinction between different types of spoken
interaction is whether the goal is ‘transactional’ or ‘interactional’.
Transactional, or task-based, talk has short-term goals which are clearly
defined and known to the participants – as in service encounters in shops
or business meetings. Task-based conversations rely heavily on the transfer
of linguistic or lexical information. In technology, most spoken dialogue
systems have been task-based, designed under the constraints of Allen’s
Task Based Dialog Hypothesis for reasons of tractability (Allen et al.,
2000), concentrating on practical activities such as travel
planning.However, in real-life social talk there is often no obvious short
term task to be accomplished through speech and the purpose of the
interaction is better described as building and maintaining social bonds
and transferring attitudinal or affective information - examples of this
interactional talk include greetings, gossip, and social chat or small
talk. A tenant’s short chat about the weather with the concierge of an
apartment block is not intended to transfer important meteorological data
but rather to build a relationship which may serve either of the
participants in the future. Of course, most transactional encounters are
peppered with social or interactional elements as the establishment and
maintenance of friendly relationships contributes to task success.

There is increasing interest in modelling interactional talk for
applications including social robotics, education, health and
companionship. In order to successfully design and implement these
applications, there is a need for greater understanding of the mechanics of
social talk, particularly its multimodal features. This understanding
relies on relevant language resources (corpora, analysis tools), analysis,
and experimental technologies.

This workshop will provide a focal point for the growing research community
on social talk to discuss available resources and ongoing work. We invite
submissions on all aspects of social talk and its applications in
technology.
Topics include but are not limited to:

   - Corpora of social talk (human-human, human-machine)
   - Annotations and analysis tools for social talk
   - Analyses of features contributing to social talk - acoustic, visual,
   biometric...
   - Demonstrations of systems modelling social talk

*Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!*

   - Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the
   submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other
   conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing
   LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility,
    when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository.  This
   effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may
   become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus
   contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and
   share data.
   - As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so
   as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also
   replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2016
   endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the
   International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org
   <http://www.islrn.org/>), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned
   to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC
   papers  will be offered at submission time.

*Important dates*

   - Deadline for submission of papers and abstracts: 14 February 2016
   - Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2016
   - Final version of accepted paper: 17 March 2016
   - Final program and proceedings: 6 April 2016
   - Workshop: 28 May 2016

*Submissions*

We will accept short research papers (maximum 4 pages) for oral or poster
presentation, and welcome shorter abstracts (maximum 2 pages) for
demonstrations of novel research and technological applications.

Submissions (in pdf form) should be made through the START V2 conference
manager website at https://www.softconf.com/lrec2016/JustTalking/

*Registration*

Registration will be via the LREC website, which will also specify fees.

*Organizing committee*

Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin

Emer Gilmartin, Trinity College Dublin

Laurence Devillers, LIMSI, Paris

Sophie Rosset, LIMSI, Paris
Guillaume Dubuisson Duplessis, LIMSI, Paris--
Speech Communication Lab
School of Computer Science and Statistics
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland
Éire
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